Fintech News Issue #182
September 6th, 2018

How safe are Monzo, Revolut or N26? Do you trust them with your salary? How to navigate the competing regulations GDPR and MiFIDII. And did you know almost no financial insitution can deliver on personalization? Enjoy another issue of your weekly fintech news roundup.
– Michael and the FinTech Weekly team

One of the strongest differentiators in the future will be the ability to deliver real-time, highly personalized experiences. The inability to deliver on the 'personalization promise' is a major concern for banking executives according to new research from the Digital Banking Report.

Registration is open for the ultimate fintech festival with two days of innovation, collaboration, live tech demos, music & craft beer. With over 2000 attendees, FinTECHTalents connects tech start-ups, financial institutions and academia under one roof in a unique setting.

Future Branches is the only conference that explores how leading financial institutions are revamping retail banking technology, retooling front line associates, and creating the branch and retail banking experience of the future.

FinTech Articles

In a digital world, with banks and other firms struggling to maintain personal connections with their customers, AI has the potential to help re-establish these connections through personalisation of products and services.

SBC is close to launching a new digital bank known internally as “Project Iceberg” in a move to sink new competition from online upstarts. Europe’s largest lender has recruited more than 100 people to the secret project, based in offices in the Aldwych area of central London.

Why are challenger banks obsessed with their cards? Why are they bothering to make them so bright (Monzo), so metal (Revolut), so portrait (Starling)? Aren’t bank cards a bit big banky? A symbol of the old way of doing things?

What is securitization or rather What was securitization? The practice of pooling different types of assets, repackaging their cash flows and rights and creating new securities out of the mashed and hashed results.

How come nobody gives me fish anymore? Seriously, what happened to my Facebook aquarium? And that brief time when you wouldn’t just poke but also occasionally throw sheep at friends, what happened to that?

Podcasts & Videos

Our hosts, Sarah Kocianski and Simon Taylor sit down with two great guests: Alexa Fernandez, Open Innovation and Ecosystem Builder at BBVA, and Ryan Edwards-Pritchard, Managing Director at Funding Options to talk about the all the latest news in fintech.